Apron



t 6 av h S w e Du h S 2 K O I ,l MN 0 EH 0A A A (No Model.)

Patented July 1, 1890.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

A. A. G'HADWIGK'.

APRON.

No. 431,332. Patented July 1, 1890.

THE nunms versus :0, PNoTo-m'nm, WASNINGTUN. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALICE A. CHADVVICK, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

APRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,332, dated July 1, 1890. Application filed March 5 189i). Serial No. 842,691. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALICE A. CHADWICK, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Aprons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a front View of the apron complete, one of the sleeves contracted at the wrist, the other open; Fig. 2, a front view of the apron with the sleeves turned to the inside, so as to be used as a sleeveless apron as occasion may require.

This invention relates to an improvement in aprons especially designed for childrens wear, as for bibs or eatingaprons, but applicable also to aprons for otherssuch as machinists, workmen, or shop employswhere, in addition to the apron to protect the bodygarments, sleeve-protectors are desirable.

In child rens wear, as well as in many other cases, the aprons are made simply for the pro tection of the front body portion of the garment, and where sleeve protection is desirable detached false sleeves or protectors are placed upon the arms, closed around the wrist, and secured at or near the elbow, the portion of the sleeve above the elbow not ordinarily requiring protection. In many cases the apron is made with sleeves stitched into the body, so as to completely cover the arms; but these are inconvenient and not often used where it is desirable that the apron should be easily removed or applied, as in eating-aprons for children or for use of workmen.

The object of my invention is to combine with the apron sleeve-protectors as a permanent part of the apron, but yet so as to leave the portion of the sleeve of the garment above the elbow open and exposed; and the invention consists in an apron combined with sleeve-protectors for the forearm of the wearer, the said protectors connected by a strap to the body of the apron at the shoulder, and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the apron, which is out to any desired pattern suitable to cover such a portion of the garments as maybe desirable. It may be simply as a bib, as illustrated by the broken line, or it maybe a fulllength apron. The shape of the apron may therefore be any of the usual shapes.

B B represent the two sleeve-protectors, each of which is a tube of fabric adapted to pass on over the hand in the usual manner for sleeve-protectors, and are of a length extending so far up the arm as is desirable to cover the garment-sleeves. From the upper end of each protector B a strap 0 extends and is united to the apron at the shoulder, as at a, and preferably so that the strap will extend down on the front of the arm to the protector. The protector is best provided with tie-strings, as b, by which the protector maybe contracted around the Wrist, and the apron is provided with the usual securing. strings or straps, as (Z cl and e e. By this construction the protectors are always present with the apron, are easily applied, and cover substantially no more of the arm than do the usual sleeve-protectors, and because of the permanent attachment to the body of the apron they do not require to be secured around the arm or to the sleeve, as must be done in the usual construction of detached sleeve-protectors.

Another and very important advantage of this invention over the previous aprons having sleeves applied as a permanent part thereof is the fact that this apron may be employed either as a sleeve apron or a sleeveless apron.

In previous constructions of aprons with sleeves the apron necessarily extends so far over the back that unless the arms are introduced through the sleeves it is impractical to apply the apron to the person; but by making the apron, as shown, so that the protectors are attached thereto by a strap the sleeve-protectors may be folded upon the inside of the apron against the person, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2, and the apron then worn asa sleeveless apron, the sleeve-protectors being always present to be used when required. Thus the apron is made practically an apron with sleeve-protectors as a permanent part thereof, but which may be readily converted into a sleeveless apron.

By the term tubular I do not wish to be understood as necessarily implying that the ment and in itself substantially a sleeveless sleeve-protectors are to be permanently united .apron, combined with tubular sleeve-protectat the meeting edges of the fabric of which ors B B, permanently connected by straps C they are composed, as those edges may be to the respective shoulders of the said apron 5 provided with buttons or other fastenings, and so as to become a part of the apron,sub- 15 Which When upon the arm will produce the stantially as described.

tubular shape. ALICE A. OHADWVICK.

I claim- Witnesses: The herein-described apron,consisting of a ASA A. SPEAR, 10 body A, adapted to cover the front of the ga'r- 7 CHARLES N. CHADWICK. 

